Thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are expected to begin receiving two months' salaries this week, the pro-government Radio Liberia International reported on Friday. It quoted authorities at the Defence Ministry as promising to lift a freeze placed on their salaries "some time ago".
The radio also quoted 'The News' newspaper as reporting Liberia's assistant defence minister as saying that the payment was made possible by the deletion from the payroll of some 2,300 ghost workers and soldiers absent without leave. He said the deletions and a general muster being conducted nationwide by a team from the ministries of finance and defence had impressed Defence Minister Daniel Chea, who appealed to the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the AFL, President Charles Taylor, to pay the "deserving and hardworking soldiers".
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